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The first chart will be from Sept. 28, when I did my worst-case analysis, and the second chart is the current one.

It's fairly interesting (chart) reading.

And that is the final word from the Federal Reserve, where all this talk about Bernanke is amazing.

Was there any discussion when Greenspan came aboard?

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